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Byline: GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG editor: Valerie Steiker
This month one of the most important portraits of the Italian Renaissance goes on view in the United States, for the first time in more than 20 years, at the Frick Collection in "Parmigianino's Antea: A Beautiful Artifice." Art historians have puzzled over the true identity of the sitter, who has been variously described as a Roman courtesan, the artist's mistress, a northern Italian noblewoman, and a fictive Renaissance ideal. Antea's distinctive Mannerist features and sparkling almond eyes also evoke the ...